Yen Lee
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Yen Lee is a technology geek with a healthy wanderlust, who has spent more than a decade helping people create great vacations. Formerly General Manager at Yahoo! Travel and co-founder of CitySearch San Francisco, Yen is currently the president and co-founder of Uptake, a social travel company that helps people plan their ideal vacation by pairing personalized recommendations from users' social networks with an extensive, searchable library of travel experiences collected and organized from 30,000 sites. Follow Yen on Twitter and on Facebook.

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Facebook's Top 10 Cities For Romance (PHOTOS)

Posted February 11, 2012 | 02/11/12 10:13 AM ET

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching, and, for most of us, romance is on the brain. Uptake has analyzed millions of status updates, photo captions and album covers on Facebook in order to bring you a list of the most smooch-worthy spots in the U.S. that people are talking...

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Top 10 Travel Destinations For 2012 According To Facebook

31 Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 01/04/12 07:30 AM ET

At Uptake, my colleagues and I have crawled Facebook's friend graph, analyzing the travel buzz in over 200 million comments, status updates, photo descriptions and check-ins from hundreds of thousands of people. We've whittled all this analysis down to create one ultimate list of top travel destinations you...

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The Travel Paradox And Why Women Know Best

Posted December 11, 2011 | 12/11/11 08:00 AM ET

I hate to generalize along gender lines, but when it comes to planning holiday getaways, women have men beat. According to surveys of travel habits, women spend significantly more time planning vacations and they book trips further in advance. Men, on the other hand, are more...

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